In this Book
- The World's Smallest Bible
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
The World’s Smallest Bible chronicles the seriocomic boyhood of Ethan and Jeremiah Mueller in mill town Pennsylvania during the height of World War II. As they lose friends and neighbors to the front lines, the boys try to make sense of the mounting darkness with their imaginations—except in their world, no one ever dies. In a private, laconic language, they invent stories that mirror the irrational world around them: a chaplain with bad news becomes the Angel of Death, skeletal Nazis lurk around the corner, and the ghost of a dead playmate taps at their bedroom window in the night. With startling lyricism and narrative grace, Dennis Must has fashioned an indelible vision of the Mueller boys’ blighted youth.
Table of Contents
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- Book One 1942–1949
- Book Two Summer 1949–Fall 1952
- 2. Stanley Cuzack’s Children’s Garden
- pp. 104-107
- 5. The Perpetual-Motion Machine
- pp. 125-127
- Book Three 1953–1954 & 1977
- Coda to The World’s Smallest Bible 1977–1985
- Biographical Note
- p. 192
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597092975
Related ISBN(s)
9781597099721
MARC Record
OCLC
894172168
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2014-11-01
Language
English
Open Access
No